A question for Mr. Schultz

[Yavin4]

Let's say you win the presidency. Let's say you balance the budget with a series of deep spending cuts on SS and Medicare, and through all that pain we reach a balanced budget nirvana.

What's to stop a future Republican administration from pushing through massive tax cuts to the rich and throwing us right back into debt?

I ask because we've seen this happen once before. Clinton balanced the budget. Pushed us into surplus, and Bush came along and threw us right back into deficits.

If Mr. Schultz cannot thoroughly answer this question, then his presidential campaign is utterly meaningless.

[HopeAgain]

1. His talk of the "far left"

has made his campaign meaningless for me already. Fuck him.

[ProudLib72]

2. The last time we had a balanced budget before Clinton was under Eisenhower

Our debt is 107% of per capita GDP.

These facts tell me that 1) The average American voter doesn't know and doesn't care to know about the debt, and 2) Candidates (and everyone elected to office) takes advantage of our apathy regarding the budget.